Onchodellus alpinus ( Willmann, 1953 )

Ahadiyat, Ali, Moghadam, Sahebeh Ghasemi, Kermani, Reyhaneh Abutaleb & Harchi, Omid Jo-, 2020, Review of the Iranian species of Pachylaelapidae, with description of a new species of Onchodellus (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4778 (1) : -

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E7873831-2826-47D1-912C-FA8A413DC6E4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846203

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F55A4D-4D79-895D-23EB-FA29FDE9FF62

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Plazi

scientific name

Onchodellus alpinus ( Willmann, 1953 )
status

 

Onchodellus alpinus ( Willmann, 1953) View in CoL

Pachylaelaps alpinus Willmann, 1953: 459 .

Onchodellus alpinus View in CoL .— Mašán, 2007: 136; Mašán & Halliday, 2014: 12 View Cited Treatment .

Habitat preference in Iran. Soil, leaf-litter, and honeybee hives.

Provincial distribution in Iran. Guilan, Mazandaran, and Tehran ( Rahmani et al., 2006, published as Pachylaelaps alpinus Willmann, 1953 ; Ahangaran et al., 2012; Mojahed et al., 2017).

World distribution. Asia ( Iran) ( Mojahed et al., 2017), Europe (Central Europe, Alps area, Austria, Finland, and Slovakia) ( Karg, 1971, 1993; Mašán, 2007; Mašán & Mihál, 2009; Mašán & Halliday, 2014; Huhta, 2016).

Notes. Ahangaran et al. (2012) reported a species, namely Onchodellus cf. alpinus , based on insufficient description and figures of female specimens, in which all the mentioned morphological characteristics were similar to O. alpinus based on the description prepared by Mašán (2007), but they did not consider any differences between these two species. Therefore, here we considered it as O. alpinus . They found it at the altitude of 1,410 m a.s.l. This euryhygrophilous edaphic detriticole mite has a wide ecological plasticity and can be found in both woodland and non-woodland landscapes, but shows obvious preference for deciduous forest habitats mostly with broad-leaved trees ( Mašán, 2007; Mašán & Mihál, 2009). Also, it was found in sea shore soil, meadows, dry meadows, compost, moss, detritus, and dung ( Karg, 1993; Huhta et al., 2010). Although Costa (1971) found Onchodellus alpinus in nests of a mole-rat species and other sites, at the altitude of 1,600 m a.s.l., Mašán & Halliday (2014) considered it as Onchodellus sp., not O. alpinus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Pachylaelapidae

Genus

Onchodellus

Loc

Onchodellus alpinus ( Willmann, 1953 )

Ahadiyat, Ali, Moghadam, Sahebeh Ghasemi, Kermani, Reyhaneh Abutaleb & Harchi, Omid Jo- 2020
2020
Loc

Onchodellus alpinus

Masan, P. & Halliday, B. 2014: 12
Masan, P. 2007: 136
2007
Loc

Pachylaelaps alpinus

Willmann, C. 1953: 459
1953
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